> a better way forward would be allowing users to configure their browsers to automatically communicate cookie preferences and consent Yes. I should only have

> a better way forward would be allowing users to configure their browsers to automatically communicate cookie preferences and consent Yes. I should only have to say once (or better still not at all) that I don't want to be tracked, and then it would automatically apply to everything. > regulators would have to work with the tech industry to make that happen "work with the tech industry" sounds a bit too much like the regulators think they get what they want, but the tech industry really get what they want. Regulators need to be able to impose a solution on an unwilling tech industry, who'll never agree to it unless forced. > And meanwhile companies will keep inventing workarounds like FLoC to track users without cookies. Any such workarounds need to be explicitly make illegal.